Giuseppe Zangara

It was like any other Saturday night, in that I got very drunk. Except this time there were noisemakers and a stroke-addled Dick Clark.

I think I like the Radar Bros.' The Fallen Leaf Pages more than the Silver Jews album. Hm.

Still my least favorite Beatles album. Oh, and Yellow Submarine doesn't count, guys, so don't bother bringing it up.

Neil Young was never a great lyricist. I've long known that, but if you read the lyrics from Tonight's the Night without the context of the music and its performances, it offers proof that eloquence isn't necessary when expressing grief. It's how you say it, not what you say. Clunky pen be damned.

We Jam Econo a talking head piece where everyone praises the greatness of the Minutemen but offers little in the way of insight, or, nothing that wasn't covered in the Minutemen chapter of the book Our Band Could Be Your Life. I'd say just read that book instead, but the book itself isn't all that hot, save for the sections on Minutemen, Hüsker Dü and the Butthole Surfers. So check it out from the library or read those chapters at your local bookstore, because Michael Azerrad is a self-important asshole who doesn't deserve your money.

fastnbulbous.com had a really great, comprehensive list of every album that came out ever within the last 40 years, but the site is no longer up.

Speaking of Neil Young, "Will to Love" is his worst pre-80s song.

Let's talk about this relevant and important young band and what they have in store for the future.

Did you know that Hawthorne Heights is on the Victory Records label, which was once home to Earth Crisis, a band that was to militant straight edge hardcore that Hawthorne Heights is now to popular rock music?

Did you know Hawthorne Heights has no less than three guitartists, not unlike Lynard Skynard?

Remember when, in the video for "Niki FM," JT Woodruff, outside the window of his lost love, held up a boom box and play a song of hope and redemption? Much like that one movie?

Tracks 1-4 and 10 on Goats Head Soup are good. It gets sketchy during the stretch of 5-9.

Chuck Palahniuk is the worst.

Same here. Inevitably, putrid arcs will jet from my lips before it all gets too much to handle.

A great deal of music released these days is recorded digitally—save for the punk/hardcore bands Corey mentioned as well as the occasional indie act—so listening to a vinyl-pressed copy of a new release is actually a step down in terms of sound quality. As for the debate at hand, I've little new to add. I prefer cds; I'd listen to more wax, which I like just fine, except I don't have a good set-up for my turntable. And I have a really good record player, too. I just never got around to dropping the cash on a quality receiver.

I was just looking around the rest of the board; I think I'm only going to post in this thread from now on.

My bad re Wood! Anywho, the only remotely not good thing from Satanic Majesties is the reprise of "Let's Sing This All Together." And even then it's alright, though only within the context of the album.

I'd like to add I vastly prefer the acoustic redo on Let It Bleed.

Goats Head Soup—the album that followed Exile on Main Street—is generally considered where the Stones' decline began. I rather like that album, though, even if it does contain "Angie." Some Girls, from '78, is held as the last great Stones record (hence why I chose that year as the cutoff). It's also their first studio outing with Mick Taylor's replacement and to this day current member Ron Wood, which isn't to say Wood had anything to do with the Stones turn to sucking. For what it's worth, I like "Start Me Up," overexposure aside. 1981's Tattoo You, the album which that song is from, also has "Waiting on a Friend," which is a really, really good song. The rest of the album is chaff aside from maybe "Hang Fire" and "Slave."

I went to the Glamour Shots at the mall. Shaving my beard changed the whole dynamic of my face, I think.

I hope no one noticed the bankyesque typo in my post prior to my removing it.

In a similar vein, "Angie" is the most overrated in the canon of classic Stones songs. And sometimes I don't like "You Can't Always Get What You Want," but other times I do. Mostly, I hate the choral opening. (Also, I like "Salt of the Earth," except when the choir comes in at the end. Not that I hate choirs always—though I usually do—I've long enjoyed the Blur song "Tender," for instance.)

I don't care about any of those bands, but he's been saying that kind of shit for over a decade. He and his band lost relevancy years ago.

I like the ignore feature, though, since I'm here so rarely these days, I have not been moved to use it.

Noel Gallagher is an idiot.